Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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In my experience, its not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows. – Michael Mandelbaum

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funny
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American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Politics
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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Future
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some. – Dale Earnhardt

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. – William James

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Sports

Most ball games are lost, not won. – Casey Stengel

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Sports

Its too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. Thats the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. – William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

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Sports

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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. – Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988

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